Veige received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Cornell University in 2003 under the direction of Peter T. Wolczanski. He pursued postdoctoral research under the direction of Daniel G. Nocera at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Veige joined the faculty of the University of Florida as an assistant professor of chemistry (inorganic chemistry) in 2004. In 2010, Veige received the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship award, the only researcher to be so honored in Florida in 2010. He was promoted to an associate professor in 2011. He is currently the director of the Center for Catalysis in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida.
His research focuses on the design, synthesis, isolation, and characterization of novel inorganic molecules for application in the production of fertilizers, polymers, and pharmaceuticals. His research has included the preparation of chiral catalysts, synthesis of nitriles via N-atom transfer to acid chlorides, chromium catalyzed aerobic oxidation, an alkene isomerization catalyst, a highly active alkene polymerization catalyst, and a highly active alkyne polymerization catalyst.
Awards
Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (2004)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award (2008)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Award (2010)
Heaton Family Faculty Award (2011)
Selected publications
McGowan, K. P.; O'Reilly, M. E.; Ghiviriga, I.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S. (2013). "Compelling mechanistic data and identification of the active species in tungsten-catalyzed alkyne polymerizations: Conversion of a trianionic pincer into a new tetraanionic pincer-type ligand". Chemical Science. doi:10.1039/C2SC21750C.
Sarkar, S.; McGowan, K. P.; Kuppuswamy, S.; Ghiviriga, I.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S. (2012). "An OCO3–Trianionic Pincer Tungsten(VI) Alkylidyne: Rational Design of a Highly Active Alkyne Polymerization Catalyst". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134 (10): 4509–4512. PMID 22352966. doi:10.1021/ja2117975.
O'Reilly, M. E.; Del Castillo, T. J.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S. (2012). "The influence of reversible trianionic pincer OCO3−μ-oxo Criv dimer formation (Criv]2(μ-O)) and donor ligands in oxygen-atom-transfer (OAT)". Dalton Transactions. Royal Society of Chemistry. 41 (8): 2237–2246. PMID 22094964. doi:10.1039/c1dt11104c.
McGowan, K. P.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S. (2011). "Trianionic NCN3− Pincer Complexes of Chromium in Four Oxidation States (CrII, CrIII, CrIV, CrV): Determination of the Active Catalyst in Selective 1-Alkene to 2-Alkene Isomerization". Organometallics. 30 (18): 4949–4957. doi:10.1021/om200547u.
O’Reilly, M. E.; Del Castillo, T. J.; Falkowski, J. M.; Ramachandran, V.; Pati, M.; Correia, M. C.; Abboud, K. A.; Dalal, N. S.; Richardson, D. E.; Veige, A. S. (2011). "Autocatalytic O2 Cleavage by an OCO3− Trianionic Pincer CrIII Complex: Isolation and Characterization of the Autocatalytic Intermediate [CrIV]2(μ-O) Dimer". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133 (34): 13661–13673. PMID 21780813. doi:10.1021/ja2050474.
Del Castillo, T. J.; Sarkar, S.; Abboud, K. A.; Veige, A. S. (2011). "1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition between a metal–azide (Ph3PAuN3) and a metal–acetylide (Ph3PAuC≡CPh): An inorganic version of a click reaction". Dalton Transactions. 40 (32): 8140–8144. PMID 21725564. doi:10.1039/C1DT10787A.
